Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Art has an obligation to offend

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

The universe is God's son.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

R2D2 has gotten more work since “Star Wars” than Carrie Fisher

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.